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The MetaFun subsystem MetaFun (a superset of well known METAPOST) is a powerful system for vector graphics that is fully integrated into ConTEXt thereby reaching its full potential for the first time, but also useable as a stand alone product. MetaFun is not for interactive drawing applications and not for free hand drawings. Its strength lies in the ability to enhance the document layout with highly accurate graphics elements. In ConTEXt MkIV we use LuaTEX which has METAPOST embedded as a library which enables us to get a high performance. contents colophon back prev next close
The eXaMpLe project ConTEXt facilitates the coding of highly structured documents but less structured, low level, directives can still be intermixed and are not blocked. Coding in xml is more restrictive with the advantage that one can be more certain that the input matches the formal document description. Another benefit of xml is that editor software can be specially setup for enforcing structured documents. For simple documents, coding in xml — although verbose — does not differ much from ConTEXt, but as soon as the need to reuse content arises much more tagging is required. The area where coding in ConTEXt has a real advantage over coding in xml is for mathematics, since it seems to be better adapted to a mathematician's mind. This, however, opens the door to inconsistent markup. In ConTEXt, therefore, it is possible to mix xml and ConTEXt. eXaMpLe is an internal Pragma ADE project that combines the power of document encoding in xml with the advanced typesetting capabilities of ConTEXt. eXaMpLe provides the user with tools and methods and uses the xml processing capabilities build into ConTEXt. In addition to the built in stream based xml parser the MkIV version also provides a tree based xml processor which is more flexible when it comes to manipulating content. contents colophon back prev next close
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